ORDINANCE NO. 900658

Authorizing a contract in the amount of $1,545,763.02 with Superior/Bowen Asphalt Company, a joint venture, for widening of North Oak from Gladstone to Barry Road; estimating the revenue in the Capital Improvements Fund in the amount of $1,181,020.00 from an FAU Grant and appropriating such sum to the project account; appropriating $120,000.00 from the Water Fund to Account 801-80901-T for water main relocations; and recognizing an emergency.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the work of constructing the widening of North Oak Street, north of Gladstone City Limits to south of Barry Road, in Kansas City, Missouri, Council District No. 1, Project No. 1152, is hereby provided for and authorized.

Section 2. That the work shall be done in accordance with the plans and specifications and the contract therefore between Kansas City, Missouri, through its Director of Public Works, and Superior/Bowen Asphalt Company, a joint venture, in the amount of $1,545,763.02, which contract is on file in the office of the Director of Public Works and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 3. That the revenue in the following account of the Capital Improvements Fund is hereby estimated in the following amount:

9-61638 FAU Grant - N. Oak/76th to Barry Road $1,181,020.00

Section 4. That the sum of $1,181,020.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund:

9-40954T Barry Road/N.E. 76th to Barry Road $1,181,020.00

Section 5. That the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $1,640,000.00 from funds heretofore appropriated to Account No. 9-40954T as and for a portion of the consideration in the aforesaid contract and for contingencies and engineering associated therewith.

Section 6. That the sum of $120,000.00 is hereby appropriated from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Water Fund Account No. 801-801 to Account No. 801-80901-T, Water Main Relocations, for water distribution system modifications necessitated by the North Oak Improvement Project and included in the contract therefor.

Section 7. That the Director of Water and Pollution Control is hereby authorized to expend up to the sum of $120,000.00 appropriated above as and for consideration for Part B, Water Main Relocations, less Item No. 17, as set forth in the proposal section of the aforesaid contract documents and for contingencies associated therewith.

Section 8. That this ordinance making an appropriation for the payment of current expenses of the City Government is recognized to be an emergency under Article II, Section 15 of the Kansas City Charter.

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.

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Director of Finance

Approved as to form and legality:

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Assistant City Attorney